minami
@sakaimii.bsky.social
Published shoujo mangaka in Japan/(award-winning!) pro translator. she/her. Black. EN/JP ok. 30↑
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minami
@sakaimii.bsky.social
· Sep 25
can’t get to sleep so here’s the first chapter of my manga (0/many)
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(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.)
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
Scenes from a Hallmark Hanukkah Movie Written by Someone Who Has Definitely Met a Jew
EXT. SMALL TOWN BUS STOP – DAY (A beautiful woman with slightly wavy brown hair steps off a bus. She’s RACHEL, a corporate lawyer from The Big Cit...
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.)
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
Pray for me when I try to put together some sort of Bakuten side story for this LOL
Applied to Comitia 155 in Feb with @sakaimii.bsky.social !
We have never not gotten a spot luckily enough, but will update when we have a booth number.
We have never not gotten a spot luckily enough, but will update when we have a booth number.
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Pray for me when I try to put together some sort of Bakuten side story for this LOL
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Applied to Comitia 155 in Feb with @sakaimii.bsky.social !
We have never not gotten a spot luckily enough, but will update when we have a booth number.
We have never not gotten a spot luckily enough, but will update when we have a booth number.
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Applied to Comitia 155 in Feb with @sakaimii.bsky.social !
We have never not gotten a spot luckily enough, but will update when we have a booth number.
We have never not gotten a spot luckily enough, but will update when we have a booth number.
I need to finish my work for this month so I can switch back to comic mode...I don't think I'll be able to rest until I've finished these last revisions...
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I need to finish my work for this month so I can switch back to comic mode...I don't think I'll be able to rest until I've finished these last revisions...
Why does KimiPuri get to have their guy character be a Precure in the main story when I had to subsist on crumbs during Wanpuri with Satoru and Daifuku 😭…..it’s fine….
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Why does KimiPuri get to have their guy character be a Precure in the main story when I had to subsist on crumbs during Wanpuri with Satoru and Daifuku 😭…..it’s fine….
I finally watched Citizen Kane for the first time and it really is as good of a movie as they say it is, particularly watching it now
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I finally watched Citizen Kane for the first time and it really is as good of a movie as they say it is, particularly watching it now
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Whenever I think too highly of myself, I flick myself on the forehead and go admire the miracles that Manga Letterers perform with patience and determination.
"Surely anyone will a little Adobe know-how can do this--" No, not just anyone can make it look this good and still meet their deadlines.
"Surely anyone will a little Adobe know-how can do this--" No, not just anyone can make it look this good and still meet their deadlines.
i know chapter 15 of Bug Ego came out a bit ago but i'm finally around to letting everyone know that YES i did have to completely redraw this computer screen and do all of the text, adjust the original emojis, and do all the effects myself! it took hours!!! happy with how it turned out but damn!
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Whenever I think too highly of myself, I flick myself on the forehead and go admire the miracles that Manga Letterers perform with patience and determination.
"Surely anyone will a little Adobe know-how can do this--" No, not just anyone can make it look this good and still meet their deadlines.
"Surely anyone will a little Adobe know-how can do this--" No, not just anyone can make it look this good and still meet their deadlines.
I'm still thinking about this. It's just such a slap in the face, especially since the review of it was like "the story and characters aren't great, but the art is amazing!"
Seriously? I have more to say on a lot of levels, but I'll keep it to myself for now.
Seriously? I have more to say on a lot of levels, but I'll keep it to myself for now.
Minami tipped me off to the fact an AI manga won the grand prize in a Tonari no Young Jump competition and I’m actually still thinking about it and annoyed about it.
Just attaching this screenshot of someone QRTing it.
Just attaching this screenshot of someone QRTing it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'm still thinking about this. It's just such a slap in the face, especially since the review of it was like "the story and characters aren't great, but the art is amazing!"
Seriously? I have more to say on a lot of levels, but I'll keep it to myself for now.
Seriously? I have more to say on a lot of levels, but I'll keep it to myself for now.
started talking about how I felt around the end of my last series and randomly started crying if you want to know how my day is going
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
started talking about how I felt around the end of my last series and randomly started crying if you want to know how my day is going
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Heads up, I got a very stupid phishing attempt in my DMs just now
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Heads up, I got a very stupid phishing attempt in my DMs just now
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For graphic novels, especially adult genre fiction, it's incredibly helpful to review it online, talk about it, recommend it to a friend—adult fiction in the graphic novel space is difficult to place, and nothing convinces readers that they'll like a book more than the personal testimonial.
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
For graphic novels, especially adult genre fiction, it's incredibly helpful to review it online, talk about it, recommend it to a friend—adult fiction in the graphic novel space is difficult to place, and nothing convinces readers that they'll like a book more than the personal testimonial.
Watching JoJo part 5 rn and I am stunned by how Araki-sensei can even come up with any of this
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Watching JoJo part 5 rn and I am stunned by how Araki-sensei can even come up with any of this
Just blocked someone for saying that Sachika is just a mom character and used for fanservice…good lord
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Just blocked someone for saying that Sachika is just a mom character and used for fanservice…good lord
please please please let me get this pitch approved so I can ink while I watch this 4 hour defunctland video
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
please please please let me get this pitch approved so I can ink while I watch this 4 hour defunctland video
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this point really hits the nail on the head of why localization workers are so frustrated by “AI” loc companies.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.
one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
this point really hits the nail on the head of why localization workers are so frustrated by “AI” loc companies.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.
Why doesn’t anyone ever FUCKING get off this goddamn train
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Why doesn’t anyone ever FUCKING get off this goddamn train
I just…want to be done with this…
I don’t want to halfass anything just to finish things obviously, but I just want to hack at it now…
I don’t want to halfass anything just to finish things obviously, but I just want to hack at it now…
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I just…want to be done with this…
I don’t want to halfass anything just to finish things obviously, but I just want to hack at it now…
I don’t want to halfass anything just to finish things obviously, but I just want to hack at it now…
3 day weekends are great except for when you’re freelance and it means the next time you can talk to your editor about revisions is on Tuesday instead of Monday
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
3 day weekends are great except for when you’re freelance and it means the next time you can talk to your editor about revisions is on Tuesday instead of Monday
>Place in Rising Stars of Manga
>US manga market crashes, no one wants manga by non-JP people
>Go to Japan to study manga in JP
>get into translation to fund myself
>become localization director
>debut as mangaka in JP
>go freelance
>now award-winning translator/pro mangaka
>US manga market crashes, no one wants manga by non-JP people
>Go to Japan to study manga in JP
>get into translation to fund myself
>become localization director
>debut as mangaka in JP
>go freelance
>now award-winning translator/pro mangaka
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
>Place in Rising Stars of Manga
>US manga market crashes, no one wants manga by non-JP people
>Go to Japan to study manga in JP
>get into translation to fund myself
>become localization director
>debut as mangaka in JP
>go freelance
>now award-winning translator/pro mangaka
>US manga market crashes, no one wants manga by non-JP people
>Go to Japan to study manga in JP
>get into translation to fund myself
>become localization director
>debut as mangaka in JP
>go freelance
>now award-winning translator/pro mangaka
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I don't know which of my kouhais need to hear this, but because I'm seeing this in a ton of commercial J>E game locs: you really shouldn't retain quotation marks in the same places as the Japanese source text 9 times of 10, especially outside dialogue. Punctuation parity in general is often sloppy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I don't know which of my kouhais need to hear this, but because I'm seeing this in a ton of commercial J>E game locs: you really shouldn't retain quotation marks in the same places as the Japanese source text 9 times of 10, especially outside dialogue. Punctuation parity in general is often sloppy.
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Japan choosing to *quadruple* residency fees for foreign residents is absolutely ridiculous.
Takaichi’s government is saying, “We want fees aligned with Europe and the U.S.”
Okay but Japan is not paying foreign workers EU or U.S. salaries! At ALL.
Takaichi’s government is saying, “We want fees aligned with Europe and the U.S.”
Okay but Japan is not paying foreign workers EU or U.S. salaries! At ALL.
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Japan choosing to *quadruple* residency fees for foreign residents is absolutely ridiculous.
Takaichi’s government is saying, “We want fees aligned with Europe and the U.S.”
Okay but Japan is not paying foreign workers EU or U.S. salaries! At ALL.
Takaichi’s government is saying, “We want fees aligned with Europe and the U.S.”
Okay but Japan is not paying foreign workers EU or U.S. salaries! At ALL.
Really happy for all the Bantsumu fans with this Banana Fish event (or maybe I’m sad for them)
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Really happy for all the Bantsumu fans with this Banana Fish event (or maybe I’m sad for them)
Okay, after getting some encouraging words from my editor I’m going to stick it through these past revisions and get it done. I think I can make this happen
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Okay, after getting some encouraging words from my editor I’m going to stick it through these past revisions and get it done. I think I can make this happen